"OUT, OUT!"

Taranaki Daily News, 6 March 1920, Page 12

"OUT, OUT!"

THE ARK OF ANARCHY. Singing the "Internationale" at the to;) of their voices and shrieking derisive imprecations at the statue of Liberty. iiW.it 300 Bolshevik and Anarchist aliens recently sailed away . for Soviet Russia on board the old army transport Buford (says a New York exchange). Most of them had criminal records, and all had tried once too often the patience of the great nation, which had offered the freedom and opportunity denied to them in their native land. The New World had endured their abuse of its hospitality until it could stand no more, and then it rose vith grim determination tn cleanse its house of them- and all the likes of them that have too long defied its laws with impunity _ Among deported Reta arc Alexander Berkman and Emma Goldman, the notorious Anarchist leaders, who for long years have heen unhealthy features of the body poliiie, There were only two other women among the passengers. Many of (lie travellers arrived in batches from all sections of the country to join those who for some time had teen detained at the immigration station on Ellis Island. Formerly the British steamship Mississippi, the Buford is a slow vessel She is provisioned for s ; x(v days. Just what port is her destination has not been announced, and tin- captain himself does not know until he opens his sealed orders' twenty-four hours after the Soviet ark (as the transport is dubbed) has cleared Sandy Hook. Revolvers have been i-'sued to the crew, and there is a strong guard of marines ahonrd. All possible comforts have been provided for the unwilling passengers. Eed Cross nurses go to chaperon and attend on the women. Some of the Reds, notably Emma Goldman, are wealthy, for they liave made a fat. living out of th.>.,r subversive activities; all seem to be well provided with money. Having started the work of ridding the United States of these undesirables, the Government is determined to make a thorough job of it. The House of Representatives have passed\ comprehensive and drastic amendments to an Act adopted years n"0 for the exclusion or expulsion of dangerous aliens, while the f'.cnate has ordered an investigation into the operations of Russian' Bolshevik propagandists in this cpatry. i